by Dee Michaels
James Pack, a Vietnam veteran, had a heart attack and was admitted to the hospital in critical condition. The First State Animal Center and SPCA took care of his 2 dogs, Bailey and Blaze, while he was being treated. The shelter, which is situated within a PetSmart store in Newark, Delaware, intended to keep the dogs until James had fully recovered.
James was in the hospital for a long time, and when he got out, he went to the shelter to get his dogs back. However, the shelter had already given the dogs up for adoption according to their policy. Even though Bailey and Blaze were still available for adoption, James didn’t have enough money to pay the $250 adoption fee to get them back.
James was unable to afford the adoption fee due to losing his savings during his hospitalization. In order to gather the funds, he decided to sell his car. Upon learning of James’ situation, the staff came together to assist him by contributing $5-$10 each until there was enough money to cover the fee.
The video below shows James entering the shelter section of the store when he is not feeling well. He is unaware of the surprise awaiting him. As soon as a worker shares the truth about Bailey and Blaze, James becomes emotional, and his voice trembles with gratitude. Make sure you have some tissues nearby while you watch this emotional clip. It features a heartwarming reunion at the end that will restore your faith in humanity.
Click the video below to witness James’ tearful breakdown at the pet store when he finally sees his beloved dogs again.
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The dogs should never have been adopted unless James passed away. Thankfully there were amazing folks working at the shelter.
ReplyDeleteSuch a beautiful story in a world full of constant drama on the news! Thank you Mr. Veteran for all you do for our country! Thank you staff at Pet Smart shelter for fir your love of animals and people! May you all be blessed for your kindness!
DeleteUgh, There goes my makeup. Such a happy tearful story. Thanks to the kind people who made this happen!
ReplyDeleteDoes this veteran have food for himself and for his dogs? Is there a place to send a donation so he doesn’t have to worry about eating and feeding his dogs? If he is willing to sell his vehicle he probably needs help.
ReplyDeleteWhat a heart-warming story!
ReplyDeleteSo the employees that make minimum wage had to cover the expenses?
ReplyDeletePet smart should have done what they said they would do from the beginning…. House the dogs until he was home.
I agree completely
DeleteThank you sir for being there when your country needed you. Thank you to the staff and the volunteers who were there when he needed you. Thank you God for being there when they all needed you. AMAZING!
ReplyDeleteThis happened in Dover Delaware not Newark
ReplyDeleteWow they got a lot of this story WRONG! I was there the day he came into the store, it was still a beautiful moment in time but wrong store, his fees were not adoption fees, they were boarding fees while he was hospitalized.
ReplyDeleteHappy James got his dogs back. Dogs should NOT be up for adopted, James service our country. GREAT ENDING for James & his Beautiful Dogs.🐾🐾🐾🐾🐅🐅🤗🤗💜💜
ReplyDeleteNASGA has received correspondence with more information as well as correcting errors in the story which we posted; and we posting that correspondence here:
ReplyDelete"I saw you posted about the veteran getting his dogs back. I am actually the person who put it all into play and organized it for him to get them back. Along with all the donations we got for him. could you up date that this was years ago and Petsmart had nothing to do with it. They are getting bashed when they were just a satellite location for the shelter. The dogs were held for months in hopes that this man would get better and were put up for adoption after family contacted them stating he wasn't going to make it. Unfortunately people only want to see the bad and not the good in the situation. I no longer work for the shelter neither does my old coworker/friend actually none of involved work there any longer.
Also it wasn't Newark DE it was Dover DE
Also the staff didn't put 10-15 together it was an anonymous donation that paid for all the fee. You guys shouldn't make up a story to fit what looks good on your fb post you have most of the story wrong."